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languagegeek (프로필 보기) 2007년 7월 1일 오후 3:38:48
Ok, the "ng" may not have been the best example. In my dialect of English, [ŋ] does not appear after the short vowels [æ] and . So “bang” has the same vowel sound as “bane”. In hindsight, that's more of a convergence than anything else. I should have talked about disallowed onsets in English like “tl” and “ts”.
Anyway, to get back to the point of ŭ, in my dialect of English, ŭ can only appear after the following vowels (in the same syllable):
aŭ as in “cow”, oŭ as in “go”, and uŭ as in “shoe”. Eŭ only shows up as a variation of aŭ, as in “shout” (pronounced ŝeŭt), and iŭ only as the interjection for “eww, gross”. So just like Esperanto, English has a restricted environment for ŭ.
Anyway, to get back to the point of ŭ, in my dialect of English, ŭ can only appear after the following vowels (in the same syllable):
aŭ as in “cow”, oŭ as in “go”, and uŭ as in “shoe”. Eŭ only shows up as a variation of aŭ, as in “shout” (pronounced ŝeŭt), and iŭ only as the interjection for “eww, gross”. So just like Esperanto, English has a restricted environment for ŭ.